Bet you a million that these predictions come true

Below are my New Year’s predictions.
I’ll bet you a million dollars that they come true. Want to take the bet?

Both
Democrats and Republicans will continue looking for inspirational,
charismatic and articulate political leaders to take them to the Promised
Land, thus admitting that they are gullible and obedient followers without
the gumption and intelligence to get there on their own and without the
realization that they’ve been bamboozled all their lives by politicians. Liberals
will continue to demonize Nazism and fascism while embracing the Hegelian
philosophy that gave birth to not only these forms of totalitarianism but
also to Marxism. In other words, they will continue to believe that the
individual should be subjugated to the nation state instead of vice versa,
while deluding themselves that they care for the little guy and civil
liberties.Conservatives
will continue to complain about welfare spending and deficits while voting
for taxpayer-funded sports arenas, for entitlements for themselves, for
900 military bases around the world, and for wars in countries that are
not a threat to us.Liberals
will continue to blame free-market capitalism for the greed of the
financial industry, for the meltdown in the housing industry, and for the
dysfunctions of the health care industry; when, in fact, these industries
don’t operate under free-market capitalism. Conservatives
will continue to rail against big government and public-sector unions
while continuing to send their kids to public schools, where they will be
taught by unionized teachers and steeped for 15,000 hours over 12 years in
progressive notions about social justice and the role of government. This
will be tolerated by conservatives as long as their school has a good
sports program and requires the mindless recitation of the Pledge of
Allegiance.The
shiftless, lazy, lethargic and envious, as well as those who picked their
nose in school instead of studying, will continue to elect politicians to
take the money of the industrious and studious for themselves. They also
will continue to rationalize their looting by blaming their lot in life on
capitalism, racism, colonialism, materialism, conservatism, individualism,
sexism, Judaism, and every other “ism” but progressivism, socialism and
statism. The
gluttonous will continue to elect politicians to take money from the
non-gluttonous to pay for the treatment of their diabetes, heart disease,
and other ailments caused by obesity and a lack of exercise. They also
will continue to rationalize their taking by saying that free medical care
is a right and that their overeating was caused by a combination of bad
genes and bad fast food chains, as if Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders
put guns to their heads and commanded them to eat cheeseburgers and fried
chicken instead of vegetables. Unmarried
parents will continue to elect politicians to tax married parents to pay
for the poverty, crime, school dropouts and other social pathologies
brought about by having and raising children out of wedlock. Also, after
having inflicted poverty and disadvantages on their own children, they
will continue to rationalize their taking by claiming that it’s for the
children. Spendthrifts
will continue to elect politicians to take the lifetime savings and
estates of the frugal to pay for their lifetime of buying big trucks, big
TVs, big ATVs, big houses, big second mortgages, and other big-ticket
stuff bought on credit. They also will continue to rationalize their
taking by claiming that it’s for the common good and not for their own
good.The
media, academia and other leftist cognoscenti will continue to blame the
industrious, the non-gluttonous, the married, and the frugal for society’s
ills instead of blaming the real culprits. At the same time, the victims,
afraid of being called insensitive and uncaring, will not tell the
cognoscenti to stick beans up their nose. Instead, they will smile, keep
their mouths shut, and send their kids to leftist universities to get even
more indoctrination in social justice. (Who is the dumbass in this
situation?)Sean
Hannity will continue waving the flag and hanging up on people who know
more than he does, thus ensuring that he never learns any new ideas and
remains a fool. Liberal commentators on PBS, NPR, CNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS and
ABC will continue to be less obvious about their biases but will still
operate in their own echo chamber and thus remain fools.

And finally, libertarians like me will
continue to hope that people will come to their senses and embrace the only
political philosophy that isn’t based on coercion and theft and that would
benefit the poor and the common good much more than modern-day liberalism and
conservatism. In doing so, libertarians will continue to reveal that they are
clueless about human nature.

You have to give incredible odds on this as it is too much of a sure bet to find takers.
very good piece.

Comment by Doug Nusbaum

Entered on: 1/11/2011 11:39:47 AM

This was mostly excellent. In the name of unmarried parents everywhere, (and we are a large and growing number) who have raised excellent children (graduated HS With honors) there were some inaccurate statements of which the comments about unmarried mothers was one.

Besides that, I would like to suggest that people do a search on orwells boot (I am number 1 or 5 or 6, dnusbaum or factotum666) I also highly recommend the books sex at dawn and sex and war which lay out how what the nature of man is. And to quote Feynman, nature can not be fooled.

Finally, I wish to say that the idea that the individual is supreme is false and is the reason that libertarianism has made little headway with the masses. In reality (nature) the individual and the group are tied together in a dynamic dance. The trick is to get the right balance. (see books above) The great mass of people (all books about the supremacy are written by successful individuals --- groups do not write books) know in their guts about this primal need to be part of a group. When the average person hears about the idea of the the supremacy of the individual they rightly think of, by analogy, a very successful strain of cells HeLa that are immortal. Very successful as opposed to the group of cells or the body. Like cancer.